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| | | | Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 15 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 15 | I have some wonderful dents in cross member 6 on my 46' 1 1/2 ton. Do any of you have some good advice for getting them out?
For member #5 I used plate steel and c clamps and it worked really well but #6 is a thicker metal and that method isn't working this time.
Kregus
Lakewood, CO
1946 2 Ton (I think)
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,177 Red dot, center of chest ... | | Red dot, center of chest ... Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,177 | Have you tried heat? Plate steel plus C clamps plus heat might do the trick. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,773 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,773 | Use some heat and an air-powered hammer. It's noisy, but it works. These old frames can be heated and worked hot without much danger of losing strength, not like the alloy frames on newer vehicles.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 15 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Oct 2016 Posts: 15 | That was my concern with using the heat, I was worried about ruining the frame
Kregus
Lakewood, CO
1946 2 Ton (I think)
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,773 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,773 | I grew up around a shop in the 1950's where we heat-straightened frames all the time. The low carbon steel used before the 1980's or so doesn't lose much if any strength when heated to a dull red color. Just don't approach the melting point and you'll be OK.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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Kregus
Lakewood, CO
1946 2 Ton (I think)
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